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I love snacking from my plants while I'm out checking on everything
Put a bowl full of flat beer in your garden . The slugs will drown themselves in it.
I'm starting to let my plants Bush a little more than in previous years. I've realized that pruning down to just a stem or 2, & planting them closer together is really only beneficial for those that have a trellising system set up where they can let their tomatoes grow to 10+ feet. But I don't have that kind of infrastructure set up. So I end up having to top off my plants at about 6-7 foot & a Tomato plant that has only produced about 5-7 clusters of tomatoes. So I'm going to be going back to letting about 4-6 main stems grow, & spacing them a little further apart. That way I can still grow a good # of different varieties, still cuts down on disease by not letting ALL if the suckers grow, & I get a lot more production per sq. ft.
We are doing the same this season.
In addition to dispatching the horn worm, I also remove the damaged leaves. This makes spotting any new damage easier...
Man to be 28 again ...love it
I'm one of those people envious of your rain. Please send it to the desert. We didn't have our monsoon rains the past 2 years.
Blue beauty is absolutely stunning to look at and fantastic taste too . I hesitated adding this to my list for 3-4 years because I have space for only 6-7 tomato plants , having grown it last season it blew me away completely.
We just noticed that our flowers in the garden beds were getting chewed to death and finally figured out it was slugs! They were also covered in slime :/ a cup of beer next to the plants last night and the cups were FULL of slugs this morning !
I was not a tomato eater until i got into those little grape tomatoes. So sweet and delicious. Now im super excited about planting all the kinds and finding more i like as well
I love having green tomato fingers too!
Any of those leaves that youre taking off - make sure to check the leaves for yellow eggs! Those would be your ladybugs look up that lifecycle if you never have - that way you know the 4 stages.
My favorite cherry tomato is a Sun Gold hybrid. Tastes like candy. Prolific producer. They never make it into the house because we snack on them the whole time we're in the garden.
9 days rain not so bed we had 3 month. The time has finished the weeds were as tall as I am. Now I am doing the catching up cutting pruning.
These Arkansas slugs are eating good! In my garden for sure!
Love your channel...maybe it will stop raining eventually.
Pruners! One of the highlights of prepping beds for winter with homemade compost is finding last year’s pruners! 😃
Trying this year to keep track of my Hori knife 😊
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@@jocummings2765 😮 Don’t lose that!!! 😬😁
Orange currant is one of my favorite tomatoes! They are WILD plants. The tomatoes are tiny and so much fun to just pop a snack while gardening! MIGardener carries them. Also great for pasta salad and stuff since you dont have to cut them up
Same down here in South Texas we been getting so much rain
Suckers make the best extra transplants. Great video. I keep rose bush trimmings , surround seedlings on ground with thorny stems to stop slugs.
We are in 7b in KY but the rain has not been constant! We got 4 inches yesterday but it had been a while. The weekend looks good but then rain again Monday-Tue. It is manageable by the time it comes over here! (So far)
Thanks for the video. You for sure are an inspiration to me thanks
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Thanks for sharing your tip ❤
Sluggo does work. I had to sprinkle around my strawberries. Beer traps supposedly work wonders but I have not tried that yet.
There is an awesome channel called slughelp that tests all the ways to manage slugs. Separating fact from fiction.
Hornworms are so gross but tomatoes are sooooo good, so we deal with them and squash them.
I hand-pick hornworms and put them out in the open for the bluebirds
I pruned and tied up tomatoes last night and upon coming in my husband was like you stink like tomato plants go shower lol!!!
I was just transplanting a beautiful Dr Wyches tomato plant and I thought I was getting a sucker and I think I topped it!!! So now I'm hoping I get a nice sucker or two that I can turn into the main stem!
It will happen. I think I did that to one of my paul robeson's by accident. A sucker took over right where the stem would have been and now it's fine.
Your energy is amazing 👏
Good Morning 😃
Zone 7b east texas here🙋♀️🙋♀️🙋♀️! Soooo much rain!!! Soooo over it!!! Last year it's like I had zero issues the year is the year of the bug. This year I have a bajillion cucumber beetles, aphids, and slugs. Not so many caterpillars this year for us though. I need to do a hornworm hunt too! I have only seen one lady bug hopefully it has friends that show up. What bug gets rid of cucumber beetles? Someone tell me in the comments lol!
Hi, you could try sweet millions an abundant fruiting red cherry tomatoe very sweet flavour.💖
Spiders are everywhere in my garden, but I figure they’re helping with unwanted pests
I never prune suckers on cherry tomatoes.
Thank you for teaching us about suckers. I went from having 3 tomato plants to 10. That's awesome. Free plants are cool.
Giggle, when you move it will be your house. 😉🤯 Lol
I ordered $100 worth of good bugs. A kid of lady bugs & green lace wings. The lady bugs were almost all gone with days. I have seen a few still hanging around but definitely not the 2,500 I ordered. So frustrating bc my plants are COVERED in aphids & white flies. I’m in Hot Springs so like you said, with all the rain it doesn’t make sense to spray the neem oil. I’ve also had a horrible problem with slugs. Specially on my strawberries. Hopefully the rain will chill out so these pest will chill out.
Slugs,snails,hornworms, Roly polys, aphids ugh ! Gardener's enemies. And flea beatles!
Beatles! Lady bugs are best. When you order them they could be not such a great idea.
I’m a tomato freak! 😆 Can’t wait for them to ripen. Thanks for the great video. I need to start talking to my plants more. 😂
I like trying 1 or 2 different types each year and choose my favs
We are in Washington State zone 7B as well. We've had 2 days of rain and now unusually hot weather. I feel like our states traded weather recently. This video came out just in time for us. We are pruning tomorrow!
I saw another farmer that grew San Marsano tomatoes and I love using them for tomato sauce. I heard about them from a cooking show they are grown in Italy. I buy the cans but they are expensive so I don’t buy them every time I make sauce but they aren’t as acidic as others I’ve used. Missing Arkansas as my parents lived there and they got lots of rain. I live in Arizona and we don’t also I live in the mountains so just rock everywhere, lol. We are in a drought for quite awhile I think. Bless you and your garden.
I’m seeing an abundance of (non-asian) ladybugs in my UK kitchen garden that have emerged from hibernation from woodchip footpaths. 😃👍🏻
Usually in twos (coupling up 😳)
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I am enjoying your vlog so much and looking forward to seeing how you transition over to your new farm. I think you got a great opportunity buying it. Wishing you all the best with it. Oh and I loved your solar lights and am a big fan of them out in my garden and yard. I had not seen the ones you showed this morning but you can bet I was quick to order some. Thank you, Sandi
This is my first season having a garden and if you haven’t tried Cherokee purples you got to. they were AMAZING. They were sweet and fruity and nothing like a normal red tomato.
as a hornworm preventative, plant alyssum around your tomatoes.. alyssum attracts hover flies which are a natural predator to hornworms
Great advice thanks for sharing ❤
I love Tomato 🍅 videos
Just came in from tying up my tomatoes and pruning preparing for all the rain that’s supposed to be coming!! Perfect timing Jill!💚💚💚
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Pineapple tomatoes are fruity and absolutely beautiful.
Hunting’ hornworms! I like that lol. I’m not a fan of raw tomatoes either but will eat them in a salsa or salad buttttttt I feel like homegrown tomatoes really shine in homemade sauces. 🍅😋
Maybe you have tried these, but I, a non tomato addict, love the Lemon Boy and Sun Gold Tomatoes. They are both very sweet.
Try “white cherry” tomatoes. Delicious and very mild. I got my seeds from MI Gardener. I will grow these every year.
I’m doing an Italian Ice White Cherry this year. Can’t wait to try them!
I've had a lot of slugs this year and ended up sprinkling epson salt all over to combat them.
I know we should never prune determinate tomatoes but what about a semi determinate? Confusing!
I tried fermenting cherry and salad tomatoes last year. OMG! They are delicious! Definitely saving my spare quarts to ferment again this year. 😋
Lady bugs showing up are a mixed blessing.. I too love seeing them, but, they only show up if the bad bugs are there for them to eat.
For the love of tomatoes lol
Neither one of us like tomatoes lol and have 35 plants in the garden why.we.eat alot of speghetti and I like salsa
Egg shells great to kill slugs 🐌
We are trying 6 different varieties ans next year I want to grow more fruity ones.
Coffee grounds!!! My mom SWEARS by sprinkling coffee grounds around her garden, slugs don't like to crawl across😮 I usually just add grounds to my compost but I have a separate container I am keeping them in for this new purpose😊
Slugs have been going to town in my garden this year as well😣
Egg shell also and extra calcium too.
I'm still experimenting with new varieties but last year I tried Wapsipinocin Peach & it was really fruity.
Hey Jill. Great video!..Try the Pineapple Tomato.Its a BIG beautiful yellow orange slicer. BakerCreek has them
Girl, I don’t know if it is the camera but those tomato plants need some nitrogen compost ! The rain is washing it out
I bought ladybugs once just for the sake of releasing them here since we love them. They looked different from other ladybugs in our area. They didn't seem to stick around :(
Potato bugs grr
Your Black from Tula look great! Mine is still pretty small but I’m anxious to eat one 🤤🤤 I was wondering if you had any advice on splitting tomatoes. They are itty bitty and are already splitting. I am cutting those off so the plant puts more energy into “healthier” tomatoes. Is that the right thing to do? Lol Thanks! 💚🌱
Hey Jill loved this video 🌱🌱 Question for ya my tomato plants are about a foot tall and setting fruit already. Should I pinch off the fruit to let them grow more? Thanks 😀
Did Slugs attack your radish greens? Mine have turned to lace
Aphids have decimated my tomatoes. I lost the first 4 feet of tomatoes to them. I didn’t know they were the cause I thought the light from the sun hitting windows was killing my plants. Nope. Decimated by aphids!!! I may or may not have cried. Ive never had these!
Where do you buy your ladybugs
Do cherry tomatoes when they start... look very empty like not so much bushing? first time planting them and my plants have like a small amount of leafs but have flowers
What kind of neem oil do you use to spray on the plants?
I’ve tried to plant suckers but when I stick them in the dirt it dies. When I put it in water it dries up and dies. 🤷🏻♀️😭
Use cloning gel. Dip in gel within a few minutes of cutting and put in moist potting or seed starting mix in cell trays (72 count, etc.). Cover with tall clear 1020 dome and mist lightly with water daily. Keep in bright light (not direct sunlight) and you’ll have new plants ready to go in two-three weeks! Harden off before transplanting of course.
Probably so many slugs 🐌 because of the excess rain 🤷🏼♀️ you could use sluggo but I don’t know if that’s organic ? I’m sure there’s something!
I just had to pull 8 tomato plants and maybe more. Tomato potato psyllids. I’m at a loss. I didn’t even consider this pest. I thought that they were just little black elephant and, I guess I was just lacks a days ago about spraying them because I thought oh I had if it’s last year and you know what’s the big deal you get a few aphids. Well I found out the hard way that they are not even and they are Psyllids. They carry a nasty disease or they caused a nasty disease two tomato plants called Psyllid yellows. I have about 20 feet of potatoes planted not very far from them and I’m hoping that my name oil comes in time because I’m going to need to treat the next round of plants that I put in or I’m going to have an over 1000 sq foot garden with a whole lotta nothing. Nature can be a cruel mistress sometimes. Has anybody in the chat dealt with this past or have had seasons like this it seems like none of my plants are doing well and I spent a lot of money trucking in super soil and laying mulch and digging in the garden by hand it would just be a shame to come up with a few handfuls of food. Although a few handfuls of food is better than nothing. Try not to be pessimistic about the season there’s always fall if anything else but I’m a little on the bottom side and I figured I’d ask around and see if anyone else experienced things or losses like this
At least you dont have a mouse decimating cabbages, i dont even know what would keep mice out of the garden
Peanut butter mixed with borex worth to try. Put them in a little box so no rain falling on it. They love peanut butter. Borex make it swell up in they tummy and go to mice heaven. 🐁🐀😇 sorry.
Mice don't like the smell of mint, just put a couple of pots of mint flanking my garage to keep these critters away I have had success in the past soaking cotton balls with mint oil to keep them away
Jill, please don't think I'm trying to be a know it all, because I promise I'm not. But I just was noticing how that "little slug" was moving along and he was faster than what I'm used to seeing them go. It makes me wonder if it was a small/ young catapillar? To me a slug at any size reminds me of a (please forgive this graphic description 🤢) slimy, sno**y, nose innard that is slow like a snail and will leave behind a shiny trail! For real! 😀😃😂💯
If I'm wrong and just didn't get a good look, please excuse the question. And just tell this ole lady, Don't worry, I got this!😇
Have a great night and God bless.